Monitor vs X servers

1998-11-30 Thread maor
After installing Debian 2.0 on my 100MHz Pentium system and then installing Netscape 4.52, I'm getting nowhere trying to figure out if I can get a colour depth of 8 out of my current card/monitor combination. Montior is a 1990 Mitsubishi XC-1429C, with specs of: Active display 240x180 dot pitch

Re: Juliet image.

1998-10-19 Thread Ze7;ev Maor
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: > How can I create an iso9660 with Juliet extensions? (It has to have > Juliet, would be nice to add RR) > Usually I do it with mkisofs, but it (my version at least) doesn't have > any switch for Juliet. NAME mkhybrid - create a iso9660 filesystem

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dists/{bo,stable} temporarily unavailable

1998-04-19 Thread Guy Maor
I have to temporarily remove dists/bo and dists/stable. The problem is that dists/stable is a directory instead of a symlink, and converting a directory to a symlink will break many ftp mirror programs. The only semi-reliable way is to remove the directory, wait a while for all ftp sites to get t

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1998-04-14 Thread maor
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1998-04-11 Thread maor
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Mailing List Archive Search Works

1998-03-28 Thread Guy Maor
The search engine works again. My apologies for the long downtime. Guy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lilo, linux and win95

1998-03-17 Thread maor
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, it was written: > > > /dev/hda1 Boot Primary Dos FAT16 (has Win95 installed on it) > > > /dev/hda5 Logical Linux > > > /dev/hda6 Logical Linux Swap > > > > From the numbering above, I can surmise that you installed linux into an > > Extended DOS partit

Re: lilo, linux and win95

1998-03-16 Thread maor
On Sun, 15 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > dev/hda1 Boot Primary Dos FAT16 (has Win95 installed on it) > > /dev/hda5 Logical Linux > > /dev/hda6 Logical Linux Swap > > > > If I run LILO and tell it to generate a new /etc/lilo.conf and then answer: > > > > Install a parti

Re: lilo, linux and win95

1998-03-16 Thread maor
On Sun, 15 Mar 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: > > > On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, David Stern wrote: > > > There doesn't need to be hda2, hda3 AND hda4. There does need to be ONE > If that is the case one of them apears to be missiing The partition with internal logical partition's (hda5 and above) is someti

Domain name

1998-03-12 Thread maor
In the /etc/issue file you can use the \n.\o sequence to get a copy of your hostname and domain name right? In that case, why to I get "omnic.(none)" ??? Where is this (none) coming from? Pure interest here, I have just been playing with it Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROT

Re: smail Solution for Dynamic IP's

1998-02-25 Thread maor
Hi Art, I'd like to see your solution and also your headers. Could you post a copy of your headers for those of us reading the digest version of the mailing list? Or just reply to this mail? I guess your message will eventually show up in the archive, but it wasn't there yet. Thanks -- Lee Br

Re: Release names??

1998-02-15 Thread maor
On 14 Feb 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: >Please excues the question, but as a matter of interest, where are the >names for the Debian releases derived? i.e. bo, hamm etc?? > > Characters from _Toy Story_ by Pixar. > > hehe... I would never have guessed. :) Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Release names??

1998-02-14 Thread maor
Please excues the question, but as a matter of interest, where are the names for the Debian releases derived? i.e. bo, hamm etc?? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: [Q] Speed? Re: Parallel linux<->linux?

1998-01-31 Thread maor
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Re: ssh vs. rsh

1998-01-28 Thread maor
Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 27 Jan 1998 20:23:41 -0700. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: MH 6.8.3 X-col: - MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID:

Help with Netatalk

1998-01-25 Thread maor
Hello all, I am trying to get netatalk working on my small home network (just my Linux box and a Mac 6115). I have all of the requisite parts, and it seems to start OK on the linux machine but won't show up in the chooser, and the AppleTalk control panel says now AppleTalk zones available. BTW I

Re: Help with ddd!

1998-01-17 Thread maor
Thanks a lot. I got ddd-smotif from hamm/contrib and all is well Ben On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > I've been trying to get ddd running on my machine. I have a good install > > of Debian 1.3, and am quite happy with it. I have been using gdb and > > XEmacs, but would like to g

Help with ddd!

1998-01-17 Thread maor
Hello all, I've been trying to get ddd running on my machine. I have a good install of Debian 1.3, and am quite happy with it. I have been using gdb and XEmacs, but would like to give ddd a try. However when I try to start it up I get: Warning: Name: status_form Class: XmForm

exmh questions become exmh questions

1998-01-10 Thread maor
Hi everyone, Thanks for the suggestion to look at GNUS and the other responses. My setup is similar to what Daniel Martin? described on his web page. I had to enter several lines in the frommap to correct what the different mail programs considered to be the from address: bradshaw

Re: xvidtune: Please install this program before running.

1997-09-30 Thread Guy Maor
Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Guy Maor wrote: > > All the libc5 packages in hamm that have libc6 versions use this > > directory. > > Then someone (me ?) should log a bug against xlib6 cause it doesn't. It > loads everything into /usr/lib/libc5

Re: xvidtune: Please install this program before running.

1997-09-30 Thread Guy Maor
Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > add : app-defaults Yes, and I held down the shift key too long when typing XKey. So do: cd /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11 for i in XErrorDB XKeysymDB locale app-defaults ; do ln -s ../../../X11R6/lib/X11/$i $i done The next version of xlib6g w

Re: xvidtune: Please install this program before running.

1997-09-30 Thread Guy Maor
Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My fix was: > > ln -s /usr/X11R6 /usr/i486-linuxlibc1 Yipes! That's very wrong, and you don't want to link through the X11 dir, as at least one package was (incorrectly) using that. Safest is: cd /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11 for i in XErrorDB XKEYsy

Unidentified subject!

1997-09-27 Thread maor
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 26 Sep 97 10:51:11 GMT Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 23:34:08 GMT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Onyskiw) Organization: home Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Bcc: Subject: Disapearing /dev/tty0's X-Mailer: PCElm

Debian 1.2 (rex) will be removed on August 8

1997-08-01 Thread Guy Maor
Debian 1.2 (rex) will be removed from the ftp site on August 8. If you want to get any files out of there or press a CD, you should do it now. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Mail Archives Stopped?

1997-07-18 Thread Guy Maor
Mail is being archived again. I inadvertantly left the crontab entry commented out while I was away. Bugs in glimpse are still keeping me from getting the search engine fully working. I want to use 4.0B1 as it has some useful features. I'll keep debugging it. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Shadowconfig

1997-05-23 Thread Guy Maor
I have to fix the NIS stuff in passwd. Then I'll release a new one with this fix also. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: power saving monitor

1997-03-26 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have a 'green' monitor. Since I leave my computer on for long periods > I'd love it if it could be put into power saving mode after a certain > length of time. I seem to recall reading that this is possible, but > can't remember where and can't find the source again.

Re: screen capture tool for Debian

1997-03-26 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Zachary) writes: > I am frantically looking for a screen capture tool similar to the capture tool > on SGIs. This tool lets you define a region of the screen to save as a .rgb > file which may then be opened with xv ... If anyone can lead me in the right > direction, I woul

Re: which package in bo provides /etc/shells?

1997-03-26 Thread Guy Maor
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > shadow-passwd package -- the new one is called just "passwd", and has shadow > support, but seems to be missing /etc/shells. This may be bug in the new > package, but I'm not sure. I may have just done something stupid. Yes it is. I'll fix it. Guy

Re: Problems working with bash.

1997-03-22 Thread Guy Maor
Jean Pierre LeJacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >This will strip the shortest suffix that matches ".*" > > ${var%.*} > >This will strip the longest suffix that matches ".*" > > ${var%.*} Oops. ${var%%.*} strips the longest. And using # instead of % will strip from the begi

Re: My screen gets messed up :-(

1997-03-18 Thread Guy Maor
Debian - Leander Berwers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After I do a 'more (binary file)' often my command prompt and everything I > type is unreadable. This has probably something to do with ANSI. How can I > correct this 'problem'? The simplest way is with the reset command. Guy

Re: List of changes...

1997-03-12 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Lever) writes: > Is there a list of changes from 1.2.5 to 1.2.7? ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/ChangeLog Guy

Re: identd

1997-03-10 Thread Guy Maor
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have no entry for identd in /etc/services. > > What is the well known port(tcp or udp)? > > Is there a good reason why it's not in by default, ie. security? It's in /etc/services auth113/tcp authentication tap ident and it's on by

Re: pgp?

1997-03-09 Thread Guy Maor
Santiago Vila Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ Yes, we should add a symlink README.PGP -> README.non-US. ] Yes, I did it yesterday, so mirrors are seeing it now. I estimate that will cut the volume of debian-user by 50%. Guy

Re: Down Loading

1997-03-09 Thread Guy Maor
Pete Poff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are somefile that are like 7 meg, and take 1 1/2 hours to > download and the service I use kick me off after 1 hour. How could > I download it? Either use reget command in ftp, or `get -r' in ncftp. Both do the same. reget remote-file [loca

Re: Perl/io/dpkg-ftp and start-stop-daemon (again(again)).

1997-03-07 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Skreeg) writes: > Due to the ridiuclous dependancies involving Perl,io,libnet and > dpkg-ftp I now find dpkg-ftp broken. io was merged into perl and is now obsolete. Remove io and reinstall perl. > bash: /usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon: No such file or directory. > >

Re: Non-existing packages in dselect

1997-03-06 Thread Guy Maor
Heikki Vatiainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently jumped from stable to unstable. Just a moment ago I thought about > installing TeX and it's friends in my system. However dselect lists many > packages that are not in the tex section of unstable tree. E.g. mflib, mfbin > are not in unst

Re: netscape 3.01_4

1997-03-06 Thread Guy Maor
Lawrence Chim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > #!/bin/sh > > export LD_PRELOAD=libc.so.5.2.18 <<< > > export MALLOC_CHECK_=0 MALLOC_CHECK_ is only meaningful on 5.4.20-1 and higher. btw, for me, Netscape reliably crashes running Java apps under 16 bpp, but it works ok under 8 bpp. Could that be

Re: Suddenly, my debian mirror timestamps out by 1 minute

1997-03-06 Thread Guy Maor
Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You probably have upgraded the timezone package. > This nice package has offset the PST timezone by one minute, and you probably > had (like me) your clock set to GMT. The change wasn't arbitrary, btw. The timezone package used to come with POSIX tim

Re: Package configuration philosophy

1997-02-26 Thread Guy Maor
Nicolás Lichtmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debian should provide a nicer default for the prompt. Many people > take this things into account when deciding which distribution they > like best. My mind is reeling. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: Unstable vs. Stable

1997-02-25 Thread Guy Maor
Ed Down <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmmm, I wasn't aware of this. Couldn't debian fit the last release in > total on the ftp site in a 'frozen' state for ftp users? I for one was > happy with the 1.2 release 'out of the box' and would probably not have > bothered upgrading until the next release

Re: Unstable vs. Stable

1997-02-24 Thread Guy Maor
Ed Down <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 24 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It is my understanding from what I've read on this list that it > > is pretty much impossible to upgrade an "old" installation like mine > > without re-installing. That's an extremely harsh criticism. Upgrading to

Re: Unstable vs. Stable

1997-02-21 Thread Guy Maor
Daniel Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since it seems like all the bug fixes go in unstable, isn't the > unstable stuff more stable than stable? All the new bugs go into stable too. Sometimes they are very bad. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

Re: ANNOUNCE: New Logo and Feedback Page for the Debian Logo (v7)

1997-02-18 Thread Guy Maor
"Daniel Stringfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > As soon as I visited the logo page, I found myself surrounded > > with peguins and ducks: gkie, gkie, gkie! > > Foul play! No, Fowl play!! Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: the /etc/messages file

1997-01-17 Thread Guy Maor
"Daniel J. Mashao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jan 17 11:28:58 unix kernel: klogd 1.3-0, log source = /proc/kmsg started. > Jan 17 11:28:59 unix kernel: Cannot find map file. > > What does it mean when it says it cannot find map file? klogd will look for a map file in /boot/System.map, /System

Re: Two last problems...

1997-01-17 Thread Guy Maor
Paul Rightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The first problem is that syslogd is keeping the load on my machine at > 1.0 even if nothin else is happenning with the system. At the same time > I get huge numbers of 'The last message repeated 123456 times' appearing > in /var/log/messages' Is there

Re: Making kernel using "make install"

1997-01-17 Thread Guy Maor
Victor Torrico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What exactly does "make install" do? See installkernel(8) and mkboot(8). Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg-1.4.0.6

1997-01-17 Thread Guy Maor
Alex Romosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i am really puzzled by the behaviour of the latest dpkg. why did > dselect automatically "upgrade" mailx from 8.5.5-1 to 8.1.1-2 as per > example: The new mailx is version `1:8.1.1-2', not `8.1.1-2'. 1:8.1.1-2 > 7.5.5-1. If you type `dpkg --status mailx

Debian 1.2.3

1997-01-16 Thread Guy Maor
pecify directory (Bug#5564). * Applied patch to main/archive.c to correct problems setting set[gu]id binaries, courtesy of Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Bug#5479). * Applied patch to dpkg-source to correct debian-only package names, courtesy of Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: libc5_5.4.14-1?

1997-01-16 Thread Guy Maor
Brian K Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Were can I find libc5_5.4.14-1? Several apps in 1.2.2 have > dependencies on it an only libc5_5.4.13-1 seems to be available. It's in unstable. > Is this a bug? Yes, but has been fixed in Debian 1.2.3. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIS

Re: purged package base while update to Debian 1.2.2

1997-01-15 Thread Guy Maor
Dirk Luetjens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > during an update form Debian 1.1 to Debian 1.2.2 I purged the base > package "base" from Debian 1.1 (dselect show this package as obsolete) > Afterwards all files in /dev where missing. > > Are there any substitutions for this package? Which package mu

Re: New login logs everybody

1997-01-11 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mathieu GUILLAUME) writes: > Hi. It seems the latest login package now puts every login process in > /var/log/auth.log, instead of the former root logins, su and login > failures. Is there any way to revert to the former behavior without > having to revert to the former package

Re: More diald problems.

1997-01-11 Thread Guy Maor
"Kevin Traas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2. From the docs, I thought diald would establish the default route to the > gateway automatically. Am I wrong in my assumption? If so, is what I did > to "fix" the problem the "right" way to go about it? The right way is to add `defaultroute' to /et

Re: How to produce the file Packages

1997-01-10 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Eck) writes: > What I'd like to know is how is the file Packages constructed. dpkg-scanpackages(8) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From miss Received: from mongo.pixar.

Re: xterm color

1997-01-10 Thread Guy Maor
"Nathan L. Cutler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On my system at least, there is no 'xterm-color' binary, so, if I > understand things correctly, when I run 'xterm', only the XTerm > app-defaults file is checked, not XTerm-color. If you want color on by default, just add this line to /etc/X11/Xre

Re: PEX? XIE?

1997-01-10 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: > No, he meant (or at least I do now): why does X (when it starts, > and it does on my mashine, with that path in /etc/ld.so.conf) > say that it didn't load the PEX and XIE extentions? And, how > can I load them? The answer is in XF86Config(5x). There'

Re: Problems with 1.2.1

1997-01-10 Thread Guy Maor
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Having two versions of a package in an archive will give dselect fits, and > it will usually not do "the right thing". It won't give it fits, but it won't automatically use the later version. It'll use the one that happens to come first in the directory

Re: Disk partitioning - recommended sizes

1997-01-09 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronald van Loon) writes: > |"You might want something like the following: > |" > |" 50MB / > > Is 50 Mb enough ? My / is 16 megs and currently half empty even with four different kernels in /boot. If /usr, /var, /tmp, and /home are elsewhere, / is kept small and low-access.

Re: DEBIAN 1.2 DISKETTE PROBLEMS UPDATE

1997-01-08 Thread Guy Maor
Kendrick Myatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >Using FTP to check directories...(stop with ^C) > > > > > >Connecting to ftp.debian.org... > > >Net::FTP: Bad hostname 'ftp.debian.org' at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm > > >line 405 > > >FTP ERROR Is DNS working? Can you do `ping ftp.debian.org'? Gu

Re: How much space does a Debian mirror take?

1997-01-08 Thread Guy Maor
"Karl M. Hegbloom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How much disk space is required for a Debian ftp mirror? Without Incoming and WebPages, 1018149 Kbytes for the whole thing. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [

Re: debian updates tree structure

1997-01-07 Thread Guy Maor
Ryan Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i then went back to caldera to grab the 1.2.1 release thinking that it > would be mostly links back to the 1.2 release (other than the updated > packages). > > however, all i got was a bunch of links. All the updates are in Debian-1.2-updates. Debian-1.2.

Re: xterm color

1997-01-07 Thread Guy Maor
Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My understanding: You must install the xterm-color package which > replaces the default monochrome xterm with the color knowledgable > binary. That should do it. No, xterm-color is obsolete. Color abilites have been folded in to the X11R6.1 xt

Re: Debian source tree and incremental diffs question..

1997-01-07 Thread Guy Maor
Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hiya, i thought I saw someone mention that upgrades to existing > packages were available via diffs to the source. debian/doc/source-unpack.txt on any mirror. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Buggy "mime-support" package? :-( (re:)

1997-01-07 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Phan) writes: > While we are on the subject of mime-support, I'd like to know > if there is some command that I can run at the command line to > decode a mime'd file? munpack (1) - unpack messages in MIME or split-uuencode format in the mpack package.

Re: DEBIAN 1.2 DISKETTE PROBLEMS UPDATE

1997-01-06 Thread Guy Maor
Kendrick Myatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dselect will not work because there is no ftp. No, dselect's ftp method, dpkg-ftp, uses perl's Net::FTP to do ftp (the protocol). It does not require ftp (the client). Use dselect to get netstd and you'll have ftp (the client). Guy -- TO UNSUBSCR

Re: pls, send to the right address

1997-01-05 Thread Guy Maor
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why don't you just check the X-Mailing-List: header instead of To:? It's > better than trying to dictate how everyone replies to the list. Probably because, like me, he doesn't want to see the personal copy if someone also sent it to the list. And he'd lik

Re: Password

1997-01-05 Thread Guy Maor
Chuma Agbodike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I get around this [forgot his root password]? Boot off a floppy, mount your root partition, edit /etc/passwd to remove root's password. Use debian/stable/disks-i386/current/resq1440.bin if you don't have a boot floppy. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: How do people on this list backup stuff?

1997-01-05 Thread Guy Maor
Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am curious to find out how people back stuff? Specifically > I am interested in finding out whether it is necessary > to use a tape system or is it also possible to use another > hardrive. Afterall, it would appear a hardrive is cheaper > than a *qualit

Re: No ftp? Have I missed something?

1997-01-05 Thread Guy Maor
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Norman Widders) writes: > i follow the discussions constantly between redhat, slackware and > debian distributions and have not heard one person comment on debian > being too large. downloading six megabytes doesnt take that long B) I was also incredulous the first time I he

Re: gcc

1997-01-05 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Phan) writes: > ld: cannot open -lncurses: no such file or directory Have you installed ncurses3.0-dev? You need the libncurses.so link provided by this package to compile (among other things). > both libs are in /lib: > libncurses.so.3.0 > libtermcap.so.2

Re: System Time Question

1997-01-05 Thread Guy Maor
"Orn E. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That hardwires your machine to run at a different time than the CMOS > clock... which means you have two different clock versions on your > system. > > The appropriate option, is to control the representation... I'm not sure what you're saying her

Re: No ftp? Have I missed something?

1997-01-05 Thread Guy Maor
Kendrick Myatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Um, how am I supposed to connect to the ftp site if I don't have ftp? Heck, > I don't have any inet capabilities except for ping! Maybe I missed > something in the documentation, but it appears that have a pretty useless > system installed here. Is t

Re: System Time Question

1997-01-04 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Roesch) writes: > Beyond that, what is the best method for setting up system time? Should > I set CMOS time to GMT and use some sort of timezone info (which I don't > know how to setup)? Or?? # as root unset TZ # just in case you've accidentally set i

Re: LI???

1997-01-03 Thread Guy Maor
Kendrick Myatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just curious... I also just noticed there is "1.2 fixed" at the Debian site, > so I am about to re-install with those images... The boot disks are the same though (for now). You can upgrade to 1.2.1 by just installing everything in 1.2-updates or by p

Re: rex-updates/binary where can I find it?

1997-01-02 Thread Guy Maor
Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The last mesg I received from Debian Installer indicated that updates for > rex were being uploaded to rex-updates/binary It will show up on mirrors in the next day or two. I made the directory unreadable by mirrors until I was finished preparing it.

Re: rm -r/-R/--recursive doesn't seem to work

1996-12-31 Thread Guy Maor
Don Prezioso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > find . -name TRANS.TBL -exec rm {} \; find . -name TRANS.TBL -print0 | xargs -0 rm is better as it starts many fewer processes. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EM

Re: 1.1 memory management issue ??

1996-12-29 Thread Guy Maor
"David B. Teague" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What package(s) do I upgrade to fix it? We are running the 2.0.27 kernel. Upgrade libc5. Version 5.4 of libc5 uses dl-malloc, while 5.2 used gnu-malloc. You'll also need to upgrade ldso. Long-running, memory-intensive apps, like X servers, will

Re: Compile time errors in include files...

1996-12-29 Thread Guy Maor
Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hiya, I'm using g++ under Debian 1.2 and have the following compile error: The problem is almost assuredly with an.cc, or some header of your own. This compiles fine, for example: -- #include -- Try to cut lines out of an.cc until the problem goes a

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